Today Cortana arrives on Xbox One (for preview members) and I suspect it’s use will be pretty common among their users for two reasons: Many of them were already using Kinects to shout some voice commands, and now that interaction will grow between them, but even more importantly, They will be able to use the feature …

Max Braun, a software engineer at Google, has combined a few hardware and software components to create a mirror that is certainly smarter than all the mirrors I’ve seen in my entire life. This connected device is not cheap (the display panel is $450 alone) but the result is certainly impressive and shows the way …

In the coming weeks, Amazon expects to release a smaller, portable version of its voice-activated tabletop Echo speaker, building off the device’s surprise success. In 2014 Amazon surprised us with its Fire TV device: you could push a button at the top of the remote to active a universal voice-search function. In late 2014 there …